Modernity and Metapoetry in Muhammad Afīfī Matar's Hunt Poem: Tardiyyah.

Abstract This study consists of an interpretation and full translation of a single poem by the contemporary Arab Egyptian poet Muhammad Afīfī Matar (1935-2010). The poet titles it Tardiyyah (Hunt Poem). With this title, the poem admits its link to the Umayyad-born and Abbāsid-matured genre of the 'p...

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Publicado en:Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 43; no. 2/3; pp. 137 - 172
Autor principal: Stetkevych, Jaroslav
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2012
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        Modernity
        Arabic poetry
        Demythologization (Literature)
        Egyptian poetry
        Arab poets
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        Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī
        Adūnīs
        Ahmad Abd al-Mutī Hijāzī
        Alī Ibn al-Jahm
        al-Buhturī
        al-Mutanabbī
        amūd al-shir
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        Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb
        ghumūd
        hunt poem
        Ibn al-Mutazz
        Imru al-Qays
        Juan Ramón Jiménez
        Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān
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        Modern Arabic poetry
        Modernism
        Muallaqah
        Muhammad Afīfī Matar
        Muhammad Bannīs
        mythopoesis
        Paul Celan
        poetic language
        Qāsim Haddād
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        quint-essence
        Sadī Yūsuf
        Tāhā Husayn
        tafjīr al-lughah
        Tardiyyah
        Wallace Stevens
      ab: Abstract This study consists of an interpretation and full translation of a single poem by the contemporary Arab Egyptian poet Muhammad Afīfī Matar (1935-2010). The poet titles it Tardiyyah (Hunt Poem). With this title, the poem admits its link to the Umayyad-born and Abbāsid-matured genre of the 'poem of the courtly hunt,' Tardiyyah. Afīfī Matar's understanding of his no longer courtly, modernist poem is therefore hermeneutically connected to his understanding of the old genre, informing his modern mythopoetic employ of the archaic motif of 'the morning of the hunter.' This essay also discusses: Afīfī Matar's place among the European and American poets of radical Modernism, especially, regarding the mythopoetic stance of Wallace Stevens; the problem of the notorious difficulty and obscurity ( suūbah and ghumūd ) of Afīfī Matar's poetic language; and the general search of modern Arab poets, among them Adūnīs, for a new poetic language. Finally, the essay singles out Afīfī Matar's Tardiyyah and his very personal mythopoesis as a total achievement in the presentation of a Modernist Arabic poem-an achievement analogous to Wallace Stevens' 'central poem,' that is, A Primitive like an Orb.
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